ART AND WAR
New Perspectives
Friday, September 16, 2016
The Frick Collection, New York

This symposium — held in conjunction with the special exhibition Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France — features papers by emerging scholars that explore the relationship between art and war from the tenth century to the present day.

1:00 p.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks
Susan Galassi, Senior Curator, The Frick Collection
Aaron Wile, 2014-2016 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection
Caitlin Henningsen, 2015-2016 Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow, The Frick Collection

1:15 p.m. Roland Betancourt, Bellicose Things: The Inner Lives of Byzantine Warfare Implements
Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of California, Irvine

1:45 p.m. Julia Thoma, Unstable Images: The Suffering Soldier in Alexandre Protais’s Paintings of the 1860s
Curatorial Assistant, Pinakotheken & Nationalmuseum, Munich

2:15 p.m. Kate Phillips, The “Topsy-Turvy” Networks of Civil War Era Illustrated Envelopes
Ph.D. student, Yale University

2:45 p.m. Coffee Break - Viewing of Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France

3:15 p.m. Alex Weintraub, Forces without Form, without Color: Félix Vallotton’s Soldats Sénégalais
Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University

3:45 p.m. Taylor Walsh, Small Fires Burning: Bruce Nauman and the Activation of Conceptual Art
Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

4:15 p.m. Chad Elias, The Digital Fog of War
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Dartmouth College

4:45 p.m. Discussion

5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks

5:30 p.m. Reception in Garden Court

THE FRICK COLLECTION
1 EAST 70 t h STREET, NEW YORK NY 10021
FRICK.ORG/SYMPOSIA
Symposium is free, but online registration is required.